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Update: The new Control4 driver for the Strato V from the Kaleidescape website restored Control4 functionality. Apparently, Control4 mistakenly finds a Strato V driver, which in fact, is the C driver. Therefore, as @J.Green indicates, the new kOS Strato V update requires the new driver from the K-Scape website, which is not yet available from Control4.
The headend tools to further improve our cover art image quality have completed qualification and have been deployed to our production headend. Strato V owners should see additional cover art image improvement rolling out this week as the images are reprocessed and pushed out in media guide updates.
We tend to release kOS updates quarterly but that's not etched in stone.
The tools rollout cited in the quote you posted was for our headend and was not a kOS update. If your Strato V is running 10.20.0-25572 then you have the latest released version of kOS.
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Strato C customers have been asking for “My Movies” for years. I guess we still don’t get that feature.Howdy folks! In addition to the Strato M launch today, we're also beginning the rollout of new kOS versions: 10.21.0 and 8.14.0.
10.21.0 includes:
Support for Strato M
With this release, we have added support for the new Strato M movie player. Strato M is our new entry-level movie player for residential, marine, and commercial theatre systems. Strato M works on its own or as part of a larger Kaleidescape system. To learn more, visit our product page.
New UI Features
- Replay with subtitles: For Strato, rewinding or using the Replay command to go back less than 60 seconds will automatically enable subtitles until the point of rewinding is reached.
- New “My Movies” tile: In the Strato V and Strato M collections menu, a new “My Movies” tile has been added to allow customers to browse movies they own, even if they are not currently downloaded to the system.
- Support for Rotten Tomatoes “Verified Hot” rating: Rotten Tomatoes recently introduced a “Verified Hot” feature that indicates whether a movie is beloved by audiences. This will complement the “Certified Fresh Tomatometer” badge on the onscreen display.
Playback Improvements
We have improved overall playback stability for Strato V. This includes throttling movie downloads to 500Mbps during movie playback when used in standalone* mode. This is to ensure the quality of playback during movie downloads. When grouped with a server, downloads remain unaffected during movie playback. *The throttling of movie downloads also affects Strato M in standalone mode.
HDMI/HDCP Interoperability Improvements
For Strato V and Strato M, improvements have been made for legacy HDMI devices (such as AVRs and TVs) that only support HDCP 1.X. Additionally, the default video behavior has been changed to “minimize display mode changes” to provide a more robust experience out of the box for the majority of users. This will affect new installs or players that have been reset to factory settings.
Performance Improvements and Fixes
We have made several behind-the-scenes improvements to enhance performance, including:
- Terra/Terra Prime performance and stability improvements
- Added player support to enable playback of remaining HD library content on Strato V and M (after conversion of those titles to new format are made available)
- Bug fixes
I'd like to take a second to drill down a little bit on that next-to-last bullet point, about the HD content support. As I think everyone knows, we've been hard at work converting our HD content library to be playable on the Strato V (and now Strato M) platform, and the large majority of content has been converted. The last batch of titles required the addition of a new feature to the playback engine on our players, and that new feature is included in the 10.21 release on Strato and Alto payers, and in the 8.14 release on M-class Premiere players and Cinema One 2nd Generation.
What this means is that once the kOS software rollout is complete (which typically takes a few weeks), you'll start to see a significant number of HD updates released as the players will be ready to handle that content.
(8.14 is primarily a release to support these updated HD playback features, with a handful of bug fixes as well.)
Would love to learn more about this. Maybe it's just a shortcut to the My Movies section of the K Store?
It has started rolling out to dealer systems as of today. The release process is done in stages, starting with employee and dealer systems and then customer systems in batches. This helps to ensure that we are able to catch any issues that might not have showed up during our testing process. It generally takes on the order of three weeks to roll out to all customer systems.
Could you go into drilling into this more? So, are you adding a new standard not currently on the old or new platforms, as an extra option for those that cannot be converted the previous newness? Given the change affects both sides of the house, I'm curious what risk there is to the old school players and existing content.
